When did people start celebrating friendship day?

People started celebrating friendship day after the United States congress deliberated on the need to have a special day for people to celebrate their friends. This was done by the United States congress in 1935 and after which it was officially declared that friendship day would be observed on the first Sunday of August every year.

Since then, people have been observing friendship day, and the important thing is that Friendship day is now being celebrated in various countries of the world today.

This idea has been taken up by a lot of people to celebrate their friends. The good thing is as you are celebrating your friends, others are also celebrating you. Being in a relationship with people is considered to be something good, at least you have someone to talk to, someone to take advice from and someone to share your sorrow with. People celebrate friendship day by sending different kinds of gifts to their friends.

Friendship Day was first created in the 1930s by Hallmark founder Joyce Hall. It was apparent Hall’s intent for the creation of this day because she wanted people to buy more Hallmark greeting cards, and this would provide a purpose.

However, when people realized the reason for the holiday, there was not a lot of response. Over the next few decades, it would rise and fall, but it never really took off. It wasn’t until recently when social media became popular that people began to start to celebrate Friendship Day.

Although, in the 1990s, more activities were done for Friendship Day and more acknowledgments too. For instance, Winnie the Pooh became the mascot in the sense of Friendship Day, and it became a little more accessible.